The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21 Century Church by Michael Frost
My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was an exciting, encouraging, frustrating and difficult book to read. It left me excited but having no real way to work out what I would like to (not the books fault). If [...]
The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why by Phyllis Tickle
My review
rating: 4 of 5 stars
Whether you like Emerging/Emergent church stuff this book makes a very clear case exactly where it has come from historically, theologically, and sociologically. It makes a very clear and fairly fact based argument that we shouldn’t be [...]
Well, my friend Brad has a hankering for depth and seriousness, so I hope this will help to satiate his hunger for a while. This post has been brewing in my life and mind for months now and I just haven’t made the time to put it all into words. I’m sure this post won’t [...]
Previous to this date in recorded history all of my sermons have only been available for worldwide distribution on my blog through the medium of word document files, however, I have recently acquired a technology that will allow me to turn the sermons on cassette into mp3’s for your auditory pleasure. If you go to [...]
So, it’s about that time again, when it’s my turn to preach again, and I’m looking for input again, so I don’t get accused of heresy. This is a job posting in the sense that I’m looking for people’s input on what they think of the sermon, and it’s a job posting in another way [...]
That’s right, I said it, “purple monkey brains”. It has nothing to do with what I’m writing here but I figured it would likely get your attention quickly and maybe a few people to read this sermon before I preach it on Sunday. In an effort to become better at what I do and to [...]
I would have liked to have post this a couple days ago already, but I’ve been playing nurse-maid for my sick wife and son. They only have colds, so it’s nothing serious, but we all need a little love and care when we’re sick so I’ve been doing my part. Anyways, on to the main [...]
Ya, I kind of ripped off Bill O’Reily’s tag line here, but really there’s not a lot of things in this world that are really original anyways. We all get our thoughts from the compilations of what we’ver heard from other people. With all that being said, I’m going to do something I’ve never done [...]
So, I’m preaching again on Sunday – I will be basically every second Sunday for the forseeable future – and I’m looking forward to having the chance to make people uncomfortable and angry. I say this in the most loving and encouraging way. I’m not looking forward to preaching because I want to make people [...]
